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DiD jesus exist?Ehrman’s word is out in his newest work about the existence of a historical Jesus. arts, p. 9

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The UA presidential debate will be held this Sun-day at 7 p.m. on the first floor of W20 in front of LaVerde’s.

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2003 nobel peace prize winner shirin ebadi spoke at Mit on Wednesday, april 4. Wong Auditorium was filled to capacity with nearly 300 students, faculty, and visitors listening to her speech on “Women’s Rights in Iran and the Islamic World.”

By ana lyonssenior editor

With all eyes fixated on her kind but piercing gaze, the overflowing room qui-eted as 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi stepped to the podium and addressed the audience.

“Today I want to talk to you about the legal status of women, wherever they face discrimination, be it in the East or in the West.”

As an accomplished law-yer and former judge born in Iran, Ebadi was most notably awarded the No-bel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts on democracy and human rights, focusing especially on the rights of women and children. She is the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to receive this award.

On Wednesday, April 4, Ebadi addressed a crowd

of MIT students, faculty, and visitors on “Women’s Rights in Iran and the Is-lamic World,” followed by a reception and book signing in Wong Auditorium in E51. Her once restricted memoir iran awakening was pub-lished in the United States in 2004 after a prolonged legal battle with the United States Treasury, and her most recent 2011 publica-tion includes the narrative The Golden cage.

Setting her expressive hands into flight, Ebadi ad-dressed the MIT audience in her native tongue of Persian. “The form of oppression on women, differs depending on culture and the country they live in,” she began.

Ebadi was dressed in all black — mirroring the so-lemnity of the talk’s topic — but a single gold and dia-

MIT responds to Anderson death

Chancellor Eric Grimson PhD ’80 said that MIT will ad-dress “educational issues of health and safety on our cam-pus” in light of Brian G. An-derson ’13’s death by opiate overdose.

“This tragic death reinforces the very serious danger that drugs may pose to the well-being of our community of our community and its members.

MIT responds to Anderson death

Chancellor Eric Grimson PhD ’80 said that MIT will ad-dress “educational issues of health and safety on our cam-pus” in light of Brian G. An-derson ’13’s death by opiate overdose.

“This tragic death reinforces the very serious danger that drugs may pose to the well-being of our community of our community and its members.

By anne Cainews editor

Undergraduates who plan to live on cam-pus this summer will have the options of living in Random Hall, Bexley Hall, Senior House, or MacGregor Hall.

According to Senior Associate Dean for Student Life Henry J. Humphreys, various factors contributed to selecting dorms for summer housing, including determining which buildings needed the greatest number of repairs, a balance between pets and no-pets buildings, kitchen availability, suitable accommodations for conference groups, and accessibility.

McCormick Hall, Next House, and East Campus will be closed for renovations and major cleaning. According to Director of Housing Dennis Collins, McCormick will be closed for cleaning and minor renovations in preparation for its 50th anniversary next year, as there will be open houses for the occasion. In Next House, the Department of Facilities will upgrade the fire alarm and sprinkler systems.

East Campus will be undergoing the most extensive renovations, including retiling and recarpeting all of the hallways and stairwells.

“It has been open constantly for the last couple years,” said Humphreys. “We’ll be doing thorough cleaning and serious repairs

By anne Cainews editor

Undergraduates who plan to live on cam-pus this summer will have the options of living in Random Hall, Bexley Hall, Senior House, or MacGregor Hall.

According to Senior Associate Dean for Student Life Henry J. Humphreys, various factors contributed to selecting dorms for summer housing, including determining which buildings needed the greatest number of repairs, a balance between pets and no-pets buildings, kitchen availability, suitable accommodations for conference groups, and accessibility.

McCormick Hall, Next House, and East Campus will be closed for renovations and major cleaning. According to Director of Housing Dennis Collins, McCormick will be closed for cleaning and minor renovations in preparation for its 50th anniversary next year, as there will be open houses for the occasion. In Next House, the Department of Facilities will upgrade the fire alarm and sprinkler systems.

East Campus will be undergoing the most extensive renovations, including retiling and recarpeting all of the hallways and stairwells.

“It has been open constantly for the last couple years,” said Humphreys. “We’ll be doing thorough cleaning and serious repairs

By John a. Hawkinsonstaff reporter

Was your laptop searched by U.S. Customs coming back from spring break? It could have been, without a warrant, and the govern-ment might have kept it for days, weeks, or even months while they searched it.

That happened to David House, on November 3, 2010 at Chicago O’Hare. The government held his laptop for 49 days. At the time, House was a researcher at MIT.

Last week, a federal judge in Boston ruled that House’s lawsuit against the government could pro-ceed. House had sued the federal government in May, 2011, alleg-ing his first and fourth amend-ment rights were violated by “the prolonged seizure of his laptop computer and other electronic de-

vices and the review, copying, re-tention, and dissemination of their contents.”

The government moved to dis-miss the case in July and the dis-missal question was argued before Judge Denise J. Casper in Decem-ber. She issued a 27-page written opinion allowing the case to go forward on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

“We were very happy with the judge’s decision,” said Catherine Crump, one of House’s attorneys.

Who is David House?David House graduated with

a degree in computer science from Boston University in 2010, and went on to work for the MIT Center for Digital Business, part of the Sloan School of Management. House worked as a computer pro-grammer and researcher.

But he was also a friend of

Bradley Manning, the United States Army private who is alleged to have leaked classified materials to WikiLeaks, a group that pub-lishes private and classified ma-terial from anonymous sources, whistle blowers, etc. Manning is being held in military custody as he awaits trial.

House is a founder of the Brad-ley Manning Support Network, which seeks to raise awareness about Manning’s situation and to fund his legal defense.

Shortly after filing the lawsuit, House left MIT, and he is now a freelance programmer. He left MIT of his own accord, to spend more time on politics, according to said Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne, for whom he worked.

House’s passion, he says, is building tools that activists can use to communicate securely, a project he calls “Ethereal.”

The searchHouse vacationed in Mexico

in the spring of 2010 with his girl-friend, and he returned to the United States at Chicago O’Hare, where he went through customs. After his belongings were initially searched by Customs and Bor-der Patrol (CBP), he was waved onwards. Two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents met House and demanded he sur-render his electronic devices and come with them to an interroga-tion room.

House says CBP told him, “you’re free to go” before the DHS agents stopped him. The govern-ment disputes that point.

House was taken away for 90 minutes and questioned by the agents (about Manning and WikiLeaks, but not about border

By John a. Hawkinsonstaff reporter

Was your laptop searched by U.S. Customs coming back from spring break? It could have been, without a warrant, and the govern-ment might have kept it for days, weeks, or even months while they searched it.

That happened to David House, on November 3, 2010 at Chicago O’Hare. The government held his laptop for 49 days. At the time, House was a researcher at MIT.

Last week, a federal judge in Boston ruled that House’s lawsuit against the government could pro-ceed. House had sued the federal government in May, 2011, alleg-ing his first and fourth amend-ment rights were violated by “the prolonged seizure of his laptop computer and other electronic de-

vices and the review, copying, re-tention, and dissemination of their contents.”

The government moved to dis-miss the case in July and the dis-missal question was argued before Judge Denise J. Casper in Decem-ber. She issued a 27-page written opinion allowing the case to go forward on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

“We were very happy with the judge’s decision,” said Catherine Crump, one of House’s attorneys.

Who is David House?David House graduated with

a degree in computer science from Boston University in 2010, and went on to work for the MIT Center for Digital Business, part of the Sloan School of Management. House worked as a computer pro-grammer and researcher.

But he was also a friend of

Bradley Manning, the United States Army private who is alleged to have leaked classified materials to WikiLeaks, a group that pub-lishes private and classified ma-terial from anonymous sources, whistle blowers, etc. Manning is being held in military custody as he awaits trial.

House is a founder of the Brad-ley Manning Support Network, which seeks to raise awareness about Manning’s situation and to fund his legal defense.

Shortly after filing the lawsuit, House left MIT, and he is now a freelance programmer. He left MIT of his own accord, to spend more time on politics, according to said Prof. Marshall Van Alstyne, for whom he worked.

House’s passion, he says, is building tools that activists can use to communicate securely, a project he calls “Ethereal.”

The searchHouse vacationed in Mexico

in the spring of 2010 with his girl-friend, and he returned to the United States at Chicago O’Hare, where he went through customs. After his belongings were initially searched by Customs and Bor-der Patrol (CBP), he was waved onwards. Two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents met House and demanded he sur-render his electronic devices and come with them to an interroga-tion room.

House says CBP told him, “you’re free to go” before the DHS agents stopped him. The govern-ment disputes that point.

House was taken away for 90 minutes and questioned by the agents (about Manning and WikiLeaks, but not about border

By John a. Hawkinsonstaff reporter

For the past year, the city of Cambridge has been running a $350,000 study to determine the future of Kendall Square. That study is almost complete, and the city is gearing up for a final public meeting to present its recommendations and get public feedback.

That meeting will be held next Tuesday April 10, at 6 p.m. at the Marriott in Ken-dall Square. The meeting will address the shape, size, and form of future buildings

in Kendall, as well as how much space will be allocated to housing.

“This meeting will help to define Kendall Square for the next ten years,” said David Dixon of Goody Clancy & As-sociates, who is leading the study. The meeting should be of interest to everyone at MIT, Dixon said, from faculty and staff to grad students to undergraduates. “We’re go-ing to put the whole effort in context,” he said.

MIT put forth a proposal to the city last year for re-zoning the campus east of Ames Street and planning to

develop additional buildings there. It subsequently with-drew that proposal when the city’s intentions on this study became clear. MIT is expected to resubmit its proposal after this study is complete.

The study and its work is “all about attracting people who want to live and work and play and study” in Ken-dall Square, Dixon said.

The Kendall Square Ad-visory Committee has met 16 times since last April, and has published a wealth of

Nobel Peace Prize winner speaks at MITShirin Ebadi discusses women’s rights in Iran and the Islamic World

Four dorms will be open for summerNext, McCormick, EC see renovations

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By John a. Hawkinsonstaff reporter

For the past year, the city of Cambridge has been running a $350,000 study to determine the future of Kendall Square. That study is almost complete, and the city is gearing up for a final public meeting to present its recommendations and get public feedback.

That meeting will be held next Tuesday April 10, at 6 p.m. at the Marriott in Ken-dall Square. The meeting will address the shape, size, and form of future buildings

in Kendall, as well as how much space will be allocated to housing.

“This meeting will help to define Kendall Square for the next ten years,” said David Dixon of Goody Clancy & As-sociates, who is leading the study. The meeting should be of interest to everyone at MIT, Dixon said, from faculty and staff to grad students to undergraduates. “We’re go-ing to put the whole effort in context,” he said.

MIT put forth a proposal to the city last year for re-zoning the campus east of Ames Street and planning to

develop additional buildings there. It subsequently with-drew that proposal when the city’s intentions on this study became clear. MIT is expected to resubmit its proposal after this study is complete.

The study and its work is “all about attracting people who want to live and work and play and study” in Ken-dall Square, Dixon said.

The Kendall Square Ad-visory Committee has met 16 times since last April, and has published a wealth of

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By Steven ErlangerThe New York Times

PARIS — The French presiden-tial election finally began to heat up on Thursday, less than three weeks before the first round of voting, with President Nicolas Sar-kozy accusing his Socialist rival, Francois Hollande, of “promising a festival of new spending that no one knows how to pay for” and risking turning France into Greece or Spain.

Hollande acts “as if the world did not exist, Europe did not ex-ist, the crisis did not exist,” Sarkozy said. “The situation today that our Spanish friends are going through, that our Greek friends have gone through, reminds us of reality. Look at the situation in Spain, after seven years of Socialist rule.”

Sarkozy spoke after Hollande, who appears to have an edge in polls, laid out plans for a first year

in office. Hollande also raised questions about the political use of police raids on suspected Islamist radicals, and, in a large rally in Rennes, accused Sarkozy of mak-ing many promises but failing to deliver.

In general, French polls show Sarkozy and Hollande roughly even within margins of error for the first round of 10 candidates on April 22, with Hollande maintain-ing a lead of six to 10 percentage points over Sarkozy in a potential runoff on May 6.

Sarkozy called a rare news con-ference at his campaign headquar-ters, ostensibly to lay out his values and his own program for France, in which he lambasted his main opponent and jousted edgily with a press corps he thinks is aligned against him. He mocked Hollande as promising billions of euros in new spending but specifying no cuts, except for ministerial salaries.

Sarkozy’s allies took up the Hollande-bashing theme. Sar-kozy’s spokeswoman, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, said that Hol-lande wanted to give France “a one-way ticket to Greece” and called his plans “stillborn.” Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, speaking to journalists on Thursday in his gilded office, said that Hollande’s plans were “an explosive cocktail” and “could drive France over a precipice.”

Hollande, in an effort to re-capture momentum in the elec-tion, laid out his initial plans as president — to freeze fuel prices for three months, slash ministerial salaries by 30 percent, raise taxes on the very rich, increase welfare payments and guarantee interest rates above inflation on tax-free savings accounts. He promises to hire more teachers and police and to concentrate on helping young people to train for and find jobs.

By Matthew l. waldThe New York Times

WASHINGTON — Six months after the expiration of a federal loan guarantee program that backed $16 billion in loans to solar, wind and geothermal energy projects, the En-ergy Department has decided to of-fer a smaller set of similar guarantees by tapping another pot of money ap-propriated by Congress last year.

The department said Thursday that it had sent letters to potentially eligible companies inviting them to apply for the new money.

Under the other program, which was passed as part of the 2009 stimu-lus legislation, about three dozen companies that had applied for loan guarantees were told that they would not receive guarantees because the department had been unable to fin-ish reviewing their applications be-fore the program expired Sept. 30.

Now, the department is saying that the companies can reapply un-der a loan guarantee program estab-lished under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that is still in force.

Usually, applicants under the

2005 program have to pay a fee up-front, called a credit subsidy, to com-pensate the government for the risk it runs by guaranteeing such a loan. Those fees can be costly, and few companies have applied. But the En-ergy Department said Thursday that it had $170 million, approved under the budget deal of April 2011, that it would use to pay all or part of those subsidies.

That would make the 2005 pro-gram more like the loan guarantee program financed by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in which the government paid the subsidy. The solar module mak-er Solyndra borrowed $527 million under that program before it went bankrupt, prompting several govern-ment investigations.

It was unclear how much in loans the department could guarantee with the new money. The size of the subsidy depends on the govern-ment’s assessment of the risk. The government could also decide to pay only a portion of the credit subsidy.

Based on previous loan guaran-tees, however, the volume of loans is likely to run at least into the hun-

dreds of millions of dollars.Among the applicants whose

loan guarantees were not complet-ed before the clock ran out on the 2009 program was First Solar, which has sought a $1.93 billion loan; the company is still faces financing problems. Another possible appli-cant is SolarCity, which eventually found financing in the private sec-tor after its loan guarantee did not go through.

Republicans have been trying for months to show that the Energy Department was negligent when it lent money to Solyndra, or that the choice of Solyndra was influenced by politics.

On Thursday, a spokesman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who is the ranking Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Com-mittee, raised no immediate objec-tions to the new round of loans but said Republicans were watching the program.

“We’re always concerned when we’re using taxpayer money to pay for the credit subsidy, but this is mon-ey that’s already been appropriated,” the spokesman, Robert Dillon, said.

US moves toward normalizing relations with Myanmar

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednes-day announced its most significant moves yet to open rela-tions with Myanmar, lifting the travel ban on its senior leaders and easing some sanctions that have starved the country of most American investments for more than two decades.

Only days after special elections that brought the country’s Nobel Prize-winning dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, and her party into office for the first time, the administration also said it would reopen a U.S. Agency for International Development office, clearing the way for an expansion of foreign assistance. It also will remove restrictions on the work of American non-governmental organizations in areas like health, education and the environment.

The administration’s actions do not lift the sweeping ar-ray of economic sanctions in place against Myanmar, for-merly known as Burma, but the announcement punctuated an extraordinary and swift warming of relations between two countries that have been estranged ever since Myanmar’s military junta threw out the results of democratic elections in 1990 won by Suu Kyi.

—steven Lee myers and Thomas Fuller, The New York Times

Bank of England holds interest rates steady

LONDON — The Bank of England kept its main interest rate at a record low Thursday because of concerns about higher energy prices and the continuing economic crisis in Europe.

The bank left the interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent and kept its bond purchasing program at 325 billion pounds ($516 bil-lion) as expected.

Britain’s economy has shown some signs of improvement over the last two months, and the rate of consumer price increas-es has started to slow. But some economists warned that it was too early to say whether the trends would continue for the rest of the year.

A rise in the price of oil and a squeeze on disposable house-hold incomes because of the government’s austerity measures remain concerns of Bank of England policymakers, concerns that they can address by keeping interest rates low and increasing the money in circulation, especially as bank lending remains tight.

—Julia werdigier, The New York Times

Germany reaches accord with Switzerland on tax evaders

Switzerland agreed Thursday to a revised tax deal with Ger-many, with Switzerland to pay billions of dollars on funds hid-den in its banks by German tax dodgers.

The deal was the latest step in an international charm of-fensive that is meant to salvage at least some of Switzerland’s famous banking secrecy.

The accord, which was tougher to reach after a deal in Sep-tember was criticized by German opposition parties and Eu-ropean Commission officials in Brussels, provides for the as-sessment of a one-time charge of 21 to 41 percent of the value of secret German accounts, higher than the original agreement of 19 to 34 percent. Swiss banks that are home to such accounts would make payments to the German government.

Anyone inheriting such an account will have either to pay a 50 percent tax or disclose its existence to the German au-thorities. And in the future, taxes on investment income will be withheld at the standard German rate.

From the Swiss point of view of maintaining banking se-crecy, account holders’ names will not be revealed to Berlin, and the Swiss authorities will be responsible for ensuring that taxes are paid on behalf of the account holder, who can remain anonymous if desired.

—David Jolly, The New York Times

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In Cambridge, expect mostly clear skies with sea-sonable temperatures for today and tomorrow as a high pressure system domi-nates the region. Starting on Sunday, moisture from distance ocean storms may result in clouds and slight precipitation.

Elsewhere, the storm system that spawned 13 tor-nadoes in Texas this week is

now moving over the south-eastern U.S., where it is ex-pected to result in severe thunderstorms including hail and isolated tornadoes. Starting next week, several weather offices mean to change the way they warn citizens of severe weather and tornadoes; the new sys-tem uses wording intended to frighten people suffi-ciently to respond to alarms and seek safe shelter before the tornado causes irrepa-rable damage or death.

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Presidential rivals Sarkozy and Hollande trade attacks

Energy Department to rouse a loan guarantee program

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BEIRUT — Spasms of fighting convulsed parts of Syria on Thurs-day, with clashes reported only miles from the capital. The leader of the United Nations said the conflict was getting worse — contradicting the Syrian government’s assurances to a special envoy that it was com-plying with his cease-fire plan.

The U.N. Security Council, mean-while, issued a statement requesting that the Syrian government comply with the plan, particularly its April 10 deadline for a military pullback from major cities. The statement re-flects the deep doubts of many na-tions that President Bashar Assad intends to keep his word.

Assad, who describes the op-position as terrorist gangs financed by Syria’s enemies, has habitually reneged on commitments aimed at halting the 13-month-old uprising

against him, the most chaotic of the Arab Spring democracy revolts.

The Security Council issued the statement as the special envoy, Kofi Annan, appointed by the U.N. and the Arab League to broker a halt to the Syrian conflict, briefed the Gen-eral Assembly by videoconference from Geneva on his latest diplomat-ic entreaties to Assad and the oppo-sition forces aligned against him.

Annan said the Syrian govern-ment had informed him of a partial troop pullback from the cities of Idlib, Zabadani and Daraa and had pledged to complete the pullback by April 10.

He also confirmed that an ad-vance U.N. team had arrived in Da-mascus, the capital, to prepare for the possible deployment of observ-ers who would monitor a cease-fire after the pullback. Annan also an-nounced that he would travel to Iran — Syria’s only remaining significant supporter in the Middle East — on April 11.

But even Annan, a highly prac-ticed diplomat and former U.N. sec-retary general, showed some barely concealed frustration with Syria’s response so far. “The government has indicated that it will continue to update me on steps it is taking,” he said in the briefing. “But it is clear that more far-reaching action is ur-gently required.”

The challenge of Annan’s work was underscored by Ban Ki-moon, Annan’s successor as secretary general, who spoke to the General Assembly ahead of the briefing. “Despite the Syrian government’s acceptance of the joint special envoy’s plan of initial proposals to resolve the crisis, the violence and assaults in civilian areas have not stopped,” Ban said. “The situ-ation on the ground continues to deteriorate.”

The U.N. has estimated that more than 9,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, includ-ing at least 500 children.

Pakistani lawmakers criticize US reward for militant chief

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani government and oppo-sition on Thursday united in criticism of a newly announced $10 million U.S. bounty for Hafiz Saeed, a militant leader accused of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai attacks, during a heated session of Parliament in which lawmakers demanded that Washington pro-vide proof of Saeed’s terrorist credentials.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani warned that the U.S. reward, which was announced by a senior State Department official in India on Monday, was a “negative message” and would “further widen the trust deficit” between the two countries.

Parliament is in the throes of a contentious debate about ties with the United States, which have been virtually frozen since U.S. warplanes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers during a disputed border clash in November. Now, it seems, Saeed’s fate may present a new hurdle.

Opposition lawmakers said the U.S. offer of $10 million for in-formation leading to the capture or arrest of Saeed, who is accused of leading the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and who lives openly in the eastern city of Lahore, was “mind boggling” and “ridiculous.”

—salman masood, The New York Times

Greece shaken by man’s suicide outside Parliament

ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament on Wednesday in de-spair over his financial problems has shaken this austerity-weary country and a crumbling political system struggling to assert its relevance amid an economic and social meltdown.

The pensioner, Dimitris Christoulas, a former pharmacist, took his life in Syntagma Square, a focal point for frequent public dem-onstrations and protests, as hundreds of commuters passed nearby at a metro station and as lawmakers in Parliament debated last-minute budget amendments before elections, expected on May 6.

In a handwritten note found near the scene, Christoulas, who was divorced, said he could not face the prospect “of scavenging through garbage bins for food and becoming a burden to my child.” He blamed the government’s austerity policies for his decision.

The episode has prompted a public outpouring, with passers-by pinning notes of sympathy and protest to trees in the square. Politicians from across the ideological spectrum have also issued statements. A solidarity rally Wednesday night turned violent when police clashed with demonstrators wearing hoods in scuffles that left at least three people injured.

—evelyn m. rusli, The New York Times

British TV reporter hacked into emails to write stories

LONDON — Sky News, a British satellite news broadcaster whose parent company is controlled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., admitted Thursday that one of its reporters had hacked into emails on two occasions while pursuing news stories, the first time that Britain’s hacking scandal has spilled into television news.

The acknowledgment came just two days after Murdoch’s son James resigned as chairman of Sky’s parent company, British Sky Broadcasting, or BSkyB. Company officials said there was no link between the resignation and the hacking revelations, which were made public only as a result of a recent inquiry by the newspaper The Guardian.

Sky said the hacking, while illegal, had been authorized by its executives for journalistic reasons — in pursuit of a story that ben-efited the public interest — and in one instance had helped a po-lice investigation. And the company said that a continuing review of its email records and accounts had so far turned up no evidence of impropriety in Sky’s reporting practices.

“We stand by these actions as editorially justified and in the public interest,” the head of Sky News, John Ryley, said in a state-ment. “We do not take such decisions lightly or frequently.”

The admission came after months of overlapping police, parlia-mentary and judicial inquiries into phone hacking, email hacking and paying bribes to public officials at two Murdoch-owned tab-loids, The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World.

—sarah Lyall and ravi somaiya, The New York Times

Facebook is said to pick Nasdaq for its stock listing

Facebook, which is preparing for its highly anticipated initial public offering, has picked a home.

The social network will list its shares under the ticker symbol FB on Nasdaq, according to people with knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity because the discussions were private.

It is a significant coup for the exchange, which has been em-broiled in a battle with the New York Stock Exchange for the dar-lings of Silicon Valley. While big technology companies, like Apple and Google, have traditionally flocked to Nasdaq, the New York Exchange has aggressively courted the new crop of Internet com-panies over the last year, grabbing notable offerings like LinkedIn and Pandora Media.

“It’s a high-profile win for their listings business,” said Michael Adams, an analyst at Sandler O’Neill. “In terms of earnings, the im-pact won’t be dramatic, but it’s something to be proud of.”

Shares of the Nasdaq OMX Group rose 1 percent Thursday to close at $25.52. Shares of NYSE Euronext fell about the same to close at $28.31.

For Nasdaq, Facebook is not just any listing.With more than 800 million users and $3.7 billion in revenue,

Facebook has come to dominate the social media industry. The company is widely expected to go public next month and is on track to be the largest offering since Google’s debut in 2004. The IPO could value the sprawling social network as high as $100 bil-lion, people familiar with the matter have said, putting it on par with some of the world’s largest corporations, like McDonald’s and Citigroup.

—evelyn m. rusli, The New York Times

By Bettina WassenerThe New York Times

HONG KONG — Stocks in Chi-na rallied on Thursday, helped by the country’s newly announced decision to open its markets to more foreign investment and ex-pectations that Beijing might soon take additional steps to bolster flagging economic growth.

The mainland Chinese mar-ket has lagged behind much of the world this year, amid wor-ries about the health of the Chi-nese economy, where growth has slowed sharply in recent months.

That trend reversed itself Thursday, with the Shanghai com-posite index gaining 1.7 percent and the Shenzhen index rising 3.1 percent on the first day of trading after a three-day holiday in main-land China.

Most other markets in Asia fell Thursday on renewed con-cerns over the eurozone crisis, after a government bond auction by Spain on Wednesday yielded disappointing results. The Nikkei index in Japan closed down 0.5 percent and the Hang Seng index

in Hong Kong fell 0.95 percent Thursday.

Chinese markets were buoyed by expectations that foreign in-vestment would increase in line with a loosening of quotas that cap the amount of foreign capital that can flow into domestic stock and bond markets in mainland China.

The liberalization of the invest-ment program, announced Tues-day, raised the quota for quali-fied foreign institutional investors from $30 billion to $80 billion — an amount that analysts said was not especially large but nonethe-less symbolically important, as it appeared to form part of Beijing’s gradual efforts to overhaul the country’s tightly controlled capital markets.

The “move is a sign of a push for greater capital account opening,” said Dariusz Kowalczyk, a senior economist at Credit Agricole in Hong Kong.

“It is also a step towards at-tracting more foreign investment.”

At the same time, many ana-lysts predict Beijing will continue its drive to lift the economy with measures that some believe could

include an interest rate cut later this month.

The Chinese economy — a leading engine of global growth — has been flagging in recent months. Government efforts last year to hold back excessively rapid expansion and the inflation that accompanied it then are still weighing on the economy. At the same time, demand for Chinese-made exports has waned amid the economic turmoil in Europe.

Recent manufacturing-sector data for March painted a complex picture. Growth appears to have been resilient among large state enterprises, but smaller, private firms appeared more severely hit by tight liquidity and the slow-down in demand. This has com-plicated policymakers’ balancing act, analysts said: Beijing needs to encourage growth, but at the same time to avoid reigniting inflation.

The central bank has loosened the reins on bank lending twice in recent months in an effort to stimulate economic activity, and many analysts expect more cuts to the reserve requirement ratio for lenders in the coming months.

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Stock prices in China rise due to push to increase investment

By Christine HauserThe New York Times

Corporate profits have been among the brightest lights of the economic recovery, helping to lift the stock market more than 25 per-cent since October.

But analysts predict that when the first-quarter reporting season starts in earnest next week, U.S. companies will show the slowest rate of growth in operating earn-ings in three years.

One widely used gauge of prof-its, the Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ survey, forecasts that earnings will have grown 0.93 percent in the first quarter, compared with the first quarter of 2011, for the companies that make up the S&P 500-stock index. That would bring the value of one share of the index to $23.85.

In the same period last year, operating earnings per index share were $23.63, the result of 19.68 per-cent growth from the first quarter

in 2010.“It is the lowest quarter of

growth we have seen since the third quarter of 2009,” said Chris-tine Short, the senior manager for S&P Global Markets Intelligence. Other surveys, by Thomson Re-uters and FactSet, show similar trends of weak first-quarter growth compared with the year before.

Many companies struggled through the difficult period since the 2008 financial crisis by trim-ming costs and laying off employ-ees to help rebuild their bottom lines.

Now analysts say that the cut-backs may have reached their lim-its and that profits could very well have peaked in the second half of last year.

The eurozone debt crisis, slow-ing growth in Asia and emerging markets, and commodity price inflation are also expected to have hurt performance, analysts said.

Analysts don’t expect the Euro-pean debt crisis “to be fully dealt

with in the first half of the year,” Short said. “There is too much un-certainty looming to say how it is going to affect corporate earnings.”

Part of the reason the numbers will show weakness is also smoke and mirrors: Profits were starting to grow a year ago as the economy rebounded from the financial cri-sis, so comparisons to 2011 will be relatively mild.

“You still have growth, but it is at a slower pace,” said Lawrence Creatura, a portfolio manager at Federated Investors.

Three of the 10 sectors of the S&P 500 index will show earn-ings growth in the first quarter of 2012, according to the forecast: the industrial, technology, and con-sumer staples companies. The en-ergy industry is expected to show flat earnings. Of the other six, ma-terials and telecommunications are expected to record the largest drops, partly because of shrink-ing global demand, according to Short.

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LETTERS TO THE EdITORThe Tech lacks MIT specific coverage

On March 16th, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) performed a concert in Kresge Auditorium, featuring the world premier of “Awakening” by Jamshied Sharifi. The next night, the MIT Symphony Orchestra (MIT-SO) performed another concert on the same

stage. Yet the only coverage in The Tech of these events was a single captioned photo of a single musician from each concert.

In comparison, the April 3 edition of The Tech features a full page article about a con-cert that took place in San Francisco and had nothing to do with MIT. The Tech, especially the arts department, should be ashamed of this disparity.

MITSO and MITWE will be performing

again in May (the 4th and the 11th, respective-ly), with the MITSO concert featuring Yimin Chen ’13 performing Prokofiev’s Piano Con-certo no. 1. I hope that the MIT community will show its support of these two ensembles (and soloist) by attending these concerts en masse, and I hope for The Tech’s credibility as a source of MIT-related news that this letter will not be the only coverage of these events.

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Andy Liang’s opinion piece in the Tuesday edition of The Tech is insult-ing, disgusting, and wrong on so many counts that it is difficult to know where to start. It is a “shotgun blast” article, aiming to incriminate an “unapologetic media”, downplay (if not delegitimize) the notion that PTSD may have been in-volved, and altogether is indicative of a very troubling trend amongst American culture today.

At it’s core, Liang’s article argues against the media’s “defense” of Sergeant Robert Bales, who is alleged to have mur-dered 17 Afghan civilians.

The most troubling portion of Liang’s piece is the overt ridicule of even the possibility of mental health issues play-ing a role in what was obviously a situa-tion in which Sergeant Bales “snapped.” Liang’s rhetorical questions of “was he drunk when he made that first kill … suf-fering from a headache when he made the second kill … not been himself when he made the third kill … been the fam-ily man … when [he killed] children with bullets to the head?” are absolutely dis-gusting. PTSD, and other mental health issues are not “drunkenness,” they are not “headaches.” They are very real inju-ries caused by extended exposure to bru-tality and horror the likes of which most of us will never know, Liang included. Liang chooses not to consider this point and instead faults the media for even giv-ing voice to Sergeant Bales’ attorney and friends who describe a pattern of emo-tionally unstable behavior, especially for a soldier on his fourth tour of duty.

Liang does not note the dozens of ar-ticles in the media that were scribed the night of the incident detailing a sense-less act of murder, and instead takes is-sue with the media’s later reports with information about the accused sergeant, such as statements from his attorney and friends, mentioned above. Liang states that the media needs to do more to

“mourn” for the Afghani victims and not “mourn” at all for Sergeant Bales.

What Liang clearly does not under-stand is that the media in this instance was merely carrying out its mandate, to present both sides of a story while details emerge. Contrast this with the recent Trayvon Martin incident in Florida, in which barely any attention was given to even trying to investigate what kind of person George Zimmerman (a neigh-borhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin) was. NBC even admit-ted to altering 911 tapes. Regardless of how the Martin situation turns out, it still is the media’s mandate to present the news — both sides of a story.

Interestingly, Liang opines that the media has not done enough to apologize for the incident that took place.

And this is kind of thinking is indica-tive of a very disturbing trend in Ameri-can culture today — the acceptance and legitimization of a moral equivalence, while neglecting at the same time any notion of American exceptionalism or even simply “greatness.” I call it Ameri-can deprecationism. Liang ascribes to a view that is becoming increasingly com-mon that when a wrong is committed by an American, or an agent of America, no matter what the situation, no matter the circumstance or context, it is our duty as Americans to bow our heads in shame and apologize without questioning “well what went wrong?” This might even be a legitimate, balanced view one could ar-gue if only they expected the same from other nations.

However this is not the case for dep-recationists. This might be a fair state-ment to make if Liang didn’t purposeful-ly omit the murders of over 10 American and NATO troops just before the incident involving Sergeant Bales. Rather, Liang instead mentions that “NATO burning the Qurans eliciting a pandemonium of protests. Many injustices were done to Afghans without any true retribution for them.”

Retribution? I call 10 murders of American soldiers retribution. I call a subsequent car bombing that killed nine more individuals “retribution.” The NATO forces burned the Qurans because those Qurans contained coded messages passed from captured terrorists to one another that might seriously comprise a threat against American soldiers’ lives.

Liang wants an apology? Let’s start with one from President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. Our president apolo-gized for the burnings, yet I’m still wait-ing for Karzai’s apology. Where is Liang’s outrage?

Overall, it is easy to take away a cou-ple of lessons from the shortcomings and distortions of Liang’s piece. For one, the reality of mental health issues as a result of combat on our heroic veterans is very real, yet often dismissed by many people. Secondly, the media should be doing its job better not to apologize in a reactionary way, but to cover both sides of a story. Lastly, American deprecation-ism is becoming increasingly common in our culture and needs to be con-tained. America is an exceptional land, an extraordinary country. One which (whether people like it or not), routinely gives its services, blood and treasure, to the cause of freedom and helping oth-ers, Afghanistan included. More effort should be expended in trying to fix the problems we’ve learned than furthering them.

Adam Edelman ’14

Missing the pointI do not intend to argue, just to clear up

misinterpretations.First and foremost, I did not say that Bales

had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), as there are no reports nor diagnoses shown yet. I merely said that his attorney, John Henry Browne, has said that he believes that Bales had this condition, or was under the influence of medication like “aspirin.” What I am pointing out (as you missed the point here) is that John Henry Browne has a history with this type of case. He represented Benjamin Ng in 1983, who was responsible for the Wah Mee massacre, and was spared of the death sentence by pro-claiming head injury. Browne also represented Martin Pang in 1995, an arsonist who killed four firefighters by a set fire, who was spared the death sentence. Browne is a lawyer whose experience speaks to how he capably defend criminals. With Bales, Browne claims he has PTSD.

I intended to make it crystal clear for read-ers when I enumerated the killings. When Bales kills, more than once, more than twice, more than 16 times, that number attests to Bales’s bloodlust, determination, and mens rea (“guilty mind”).

But nowhere did I make the association of PTSD with being drunk, nor having headaches. There are actual reports of Bales’s alcohol abuse following the day of his crime, in The Miami Herald, The News Tribune, and BBC News, Bales “has been drinking alcohol the evening before the attack.” So I was pointing to the news’ naïve subliminal interpretation of the crime scene.

PTSD is a serious problem. But Bales does not have this problem.

You made an argument about American exceptionalism — you should write an article about it — but I speak to our crimes and disre-spect in Afghanistan.

“Retribution? I call 10 murders of American soldiers retribution.” Retribution is not revenge. Your thinking is dangerous. Our wrongdoings should not be balanced with Afghanistan’s wrongdoings; they should be balanced with our redemptive acts. Retribution is apologizing even when the other person, Karzai, does not.

Andy Liang ’14

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The dangers of American deprecationism

This is kind of thinking is indicative of a very disturbing trend in American culture today.

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movie review

Film brings book action to lifeThe Hunger Games upholds its hysterical hype

By Maggie LiuStaff Writer

The Hunger Games, like its prior fantasy predecessors, twilight and Harry Potter, is a behemoth. It has the hopes and dreams of millions of tween fangirls and fanboys on the line. When I discovered that they were making the bestselling book series into movies, I could not say I was surprised — what I did not anticipate was being im-pressed by the first movie. Even for those who have not read the series, the movie is a solid standalone film. It has all the neces-sary elements: beautiful cinematography, breadth of colorful characters, and the right moments to pull the audience’s heart-strings. What makes premise of The Hunger Games so unique though is that the most monstrous creatures the protagonist faces are other humans.

I will keep it succinct: The Hunger Games has strong traces of the same blood-bath and human psychology of Lord of the flies and the Japanese gore-thriller Battle

royale. Most of the action in the film takes place during a staged “game” where each of the 12 districts sends two youths, a boy and a girl, to participate in a gladiatorial game to the death. Following the model of cur-rent reality shows, the games are a televised spectacle complete with host and running commentary. The heart of the first film is the introduction of Katniss Everdeen, our heroine, and the 74th Hunger Games.

Steadfast fans of the series will appreci-ate the attention to detail in designing the sets and costumes, and capturing the at-mosphere of the various parts of the book. While many may complain that the Capi-tol’s makeup and décor was too gaudy, it definitely captured a dimension of the book’s description. Best of all, while the plot is central to the film’s development, the di-rector does not sacrifice quality for content. From a cinematographic perspective, the sweeping landscapes, diverse camera tech-nique, and range of color palettes are more characteristic of an arthouse independent film than a blockbuster hit. I was especially impressed by the Gary Ross’ visual rendi-tion of the Capitol. The Lady Gaga-esque haute couture combined with a neo-New York futuristic city was an unique interpre-tation. The decadence coupled with a neon and white palette contrasted nicely against the earthy realism of the actual Hunger Games scenes.

In terms of the cast, while it helps that there are two studly young male actors (Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth), Jennifer Lawrence really carries the movie on her toned bronzed shoulders as Katniss. She is surprisingly convincing as a level-headed, stubborn, and mildly socially-inept Katniss.

Not only does she have natural good looks, she has the acting skills that can capture the full range of Katniss’s complexity: from huntress with fierce smouldering gaze to a tender-hearted older sister. Unlike fellow counterparts in certain vampire movies, Lawrence brings depth to her character. Even if fans may argue and nitpick about how she doesn’t quite physically resembles the original series’ Katniss, it is difficult to argue that Lawrence did not nail the hubris of the leading role.

If moviegoers are anticipating melodra-matic love triangles (as mislead by the trail-ers), they will be sorely disappointed. As stated previously, this first film seeks to es-tablish Katniss as a character and introduce the audience to the world of Panem. Of all the book-turned-film movies, The Hunger Games is actually one of the best-delivered ones, partly due to the nature of the origi-nal book. Suzanne Collins, the author of the original book series, was criticized as hav-ing spent too many pages describing the ac-tion. The film was able to bring a dimension to the action scenes that words alone could not.

The one major flaw I found in the film was that it barely scraped the surface on the political aspects of the original series. The extreme hierarchical class system and limited political freedom emphasized in the book are all issues skirted around cau-tiously in the movie. While it is true that the first book did not focus on the political aspects, I was disappointed that the film

translated even less of it to the audience. Although the cinematography and action scenes provide for entertainment, the film could have pushed itself more by lingering upon the politics of Panem for a scene or two.

All in all, The Hunger Games really ap-peals to a spectrum of audiences. With the PG-13 rating, the visuals avert from direct gore or scenes of blood splatters, making it family-friendly. The complexity of the social system and government structure of Panem also provides food for the thought for more sophisticated audience, despite being construed minimally on screen. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or in the mood for a movie worth the $12 theater experience, The Hunger Games is definitely an option for weekend entertainment.

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Have kids, not a relationshipCheap laughs and poor chemistry detract from a potentially good film

By Jaimie ChungStaff Writer

With a mini-reunion of the cast of Brides-maids, friends with Kids had some high standards to live up to. friends with Kids did succeed in telling the same old love story in a new way, but it did not compare in the comedy department. Still, the movie offers a cute and unique story, and the low budget makes the end result all the more charming.

The storyline revolves around longtime friends Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) and Jason (Adam Scott) and their shrinking pool of friends when their friends start having chil-dren. After observing the toll that children take on the romance of a relationship, Julie and Jason come up with their brilliant plan of having a child together without marriage and the messiness that comes with it. Their plan pans out smoothly — and they even find their perfect counterparts — until they fall for each other, of course.

Unfortunately, the chemistry between the two main characters is forced. West-feldt, who wrote, produced, and directed the movie, insisted on her co-star repeatedly

calling her “doll” — acceptable, perhaps, had the film been made a few decades ago. The movie would have benefitted from hav-ing the two stars substituted with comedians who are more comedic than romantic in the romantic comedy realm.

Every other character, however, is per-fectly cast. Maya Rudolph and Chris O’Dowd make for the perfect dysfunctional and quirky couple, Jon Hamm plays a bitter and menacing husband, and Kristen Wiig is sur-

prisingly dramatic enough to play Hamm’s disgruntled wife. And Megan Fox’s role as Jason’s love interest seemed to have been written for her. In one scene, the baby has a bad case of diarrhea and Jason is trying his best to keep the poo contained, when Mary Jane (Fox) walks in to see excrement splat-tered everywhere around the room and on Jason. Her horrified expression was price-less. Another memorable poo situation was Julie opening an email with a picture of one of her friend’s kid’s successful first number two in the toilet.

Indeed, the movie seems to fixate on cheap laughs. Julie and Jason’s interactions are filled with a slew of inappropriate lines that are too awkward to be funny, and too lewd to publish in print. And keeping with Westfeldt’s fascination with walking the in-appropriate line was Hamm’s character jok-ing about Wiig’s character that “she looks like I raped her to have a kid.” Although comedy generally does have to approach that line, this movie favored the wrong side. Nevertheless, it had a good soundtrack to accompany the parts that weren’t uncom-fortable as well as several abrupt but well-

placed transitions for comedic effect.For a low-budget, independent film,

friends with Kids does a commendable job. Despite the almost offensive scenes that made the movie uncomfortable at times and the weak chemistry between the two main actors, it was refreshing to see a romantic comedy with a novel storyline and such de-veloped characters — even though the plot is predictable.

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The incredible shrinking argumentA mainstream scholar defends the historical Jesus

By roberto Perez-FrancoStaff Writer

Back in November 2009, I reviewed a book by Earl Doherty, Jesus: Neither God nor Man, which discusses at length his theory about the origins of early Christianity with-out invoking a historical Jesus. After call-ing Doherty’s theory marginally superior to the predominant view, the atheist philoso-pher Richard Carrier stated in his review of Doherty’s work that “the tables have turned.” A refutation to Doherty’s theory, Carrier said, would require developing a single, co-herent theory in favor of Jesus’ historicity that can explain all the evidence at least as well as Doherty’s. With funding from both atheists and believers, Carrier himself has taken on the question formally, and his work will soon be published in two volumes.

But he’s not the only one who’s been busy after the publication of Doherty’s work. Bart D. Ehrman, a highly respected New Testa-ment scholar, has taken on the challenge of defending the mainstream view on the his-torical Jesus from the seditious attacks from “mythicists,” new and old. In his new book, Did Jesus exist?, Ehrman sets out to provide that single, coherent theory in favor of Jesus’ historicity. Which he does, with less than spectacular results.

Ehrman opens his argument by claiming that the question of Jesus’ historicity is all but settled from the start, since to his knowledge no serious scholar — now or in the past — has ever doubted the existence of the historical Jesus. By serious scholar, Ehrman means one holding a PhD (exit Doherty) and currently tenured in the field of New Testament stud-ies (exit Carrier). The only bona fide excep-tion Ehrman allows seems to be Robert Price (The incredible Shrinking Son of Man, 2003). Ehrman seems to have no problem with the possibility that holding a counter-main-stream view may affect a scholar’s chances for obtaining tenure in the first place.

After calling the idea that Jesus did not

exist “a modern myth” made up in the 18th century and with no ancient precedents, Ehrman provides an overview of the fauna of mythicism proponents, from the down-right quack to the more scholarly. The quack varieties are ridiculed and quickly brushed aside in a few pages; the more scholarly ver-sions are acknowledged somewhat more seriously, yet outlined only in wide brush-strokes, as preparation for a refutation that seemingly never quite delivers.

Confident of his position, Ehrman lists the evidence we do not have for a historical Jesus: “There is no hard, physical evidence for Jesus … including no archaeological evi-dence of any kind” (did you hear that, James Tabor?), nor “any writings from Jesus” (not surprising, says Ehrman, since Jesus prob-ably could not write), and no mentions of Je-sus from any “Greek or Roman author from

the first century.” Ehrman has no problem with this lack of non-Christian references, since the historical Jesus he has in mind should have been invisible to these groups. Trying to “press the issue further,” Ehrman makes what may be an unnecessary blun-der: he likens the absence of evidence for Jesus with that for Pontius Pilate, a claim that Carrier has already called an “amateur mistake” in light of the extant evidence for Pilate.

Ehrman’s defence of the historical Jesus boils down to two arguments. The first is that many “independent witnesses” provide sup-port for the teachings and deeds of a histori-cal Jesus. Unfortunately, what Ehrman calls

witnesses are not really witnesses, but at best oral traditions — different enough to be considered independent, yet similar enough to be understood as referring to the same man — that served as foundation for the Gospel and other writers several decades later. The strength of this argument lies on the inference that the existence of a physical Jesus could explain why diverse groups of people held such beliefs near the end of the first century. Its weakness is that it explains little that is not explained equally well by Doherty without a historical Jesus.

Ehrman’s second argument is based on Paul’s claim to have met with Peter and James, whom Ehrman describes as Jesus’ closest disciple and biological brother, re-spectively. Since this meeting happened, Ehrman reasons, it is impossible that a physical Jesus never existed, given that peo-

ple who do not exist do not have brothers and disciples. But how do we know that the meeting happened? Because Paul says so. The argument is so weak as to be cute. “What I am writing to you, I tell you before God, I am not lying!” said Paul. “When Paul swears he is not lying, I generally believe him,” re-plies Ehrman. Never mind that doubts have been cast upon Paul’s account, on the light that such a meeting would bolster his own credentials as apostle of the Christ he never met.

As a self-proclaimed “agnostic with athe-ist leanings,” who nevertheless regards Jesus as “the most important person in the history of the West” (move aside, Aristotle), Ehrman

affirms his interest in defending the exis-tence of Jesus stems only from his interest in history. Yet he seems reluctant to extend a similar license to other nonbelievers, as he issues a summary admonition: “Humanists, agnostics, atheists, mythicists, and anyone else who does not advocate belief in Jesus would be better served to stress that the Jesus of history is not the Jesus of modern Christianity than to insist — wrongly and counterproductively — that Jesus never ex-isted.” Putting aside the gross generalization that all varieties of hellbound minds — like yours truly — are out to get Jesus in order to advance some sort of hidden agenda, I agree with Ehrman in what he says next: “Jesus did exist. He simply was not the person that most believers today think he was.”

The historical Jesus that emerges from Ehrman’s mainstream defense is a purely human, miracle-free Jewish male with a very common name living in first century Palestine, who after an unremarkable youth went on to teach things that many others had taught before; one more apocalyptic preacher, among many others at the time, whose predictions were proven wrong with-in a generation; one more “troublemaker” crucified like countless others by the Ro-mans after a drive-thru trial during the Pi-late administration. Being such, the Jesus that can be reconstructed from history with any certainty is, for all practical purposes, as irrelevant as the mythical one, effectively shrinking the debate on his existence from a grandiose quest with theological implica-tions to an inconsequential and endless ex-ercise in academic hair-splitting.

Did Jesus Exist?By Bart D. Ehrman

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The movie would have benefitted from having the two stars substituted with comedians who are more comedic than romantic in the romantic comedy realm.

ehrman opens his argument by claiming that the question of Jesus’ historicity is all but settled from the start, since to his knowledge no serious scholar — now or in the past — has ever doubted the existence of the historical Jesus.

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control, customs, terrorism, etc.). He was asked to give the password to his unencrypted computer (a dual-boot Windows and Linux machine, caus-ing the agents some confusion), and he declined. When allowed to leave, his cell phone was returned, but not his computer or camera.

House’s laptop contained all of his email for several years, as well as personal finance information, and many confidential details about the Bradley Manning Support Network, including communications between members of the steer committee, as well as the network’s complete mail-ing list.

Forty-nine days later, on Dec. 22, 2010, and one day after House’s law-yers wrote to government, House’s laptop was FedExed back to him. House filed suit against the govern-ment six months later, on May 13, 2011.

The suitHouse sued Janet Napolitano,

the secretary of homeland security, in her official capacity. He is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.

House argues there are three ways in which his rights were violat-ed: 1) the searching and holding of

his laptop violates his fourth amend-ment protections against unreason-able search and seizure, 2) his first amendment right to free speech was violated, and 3) the government’s keeping of his information about the Manning support network and disseminating it to other govern-ment agencies violates House’s first amendment right to “associational privacy.” Associational privacy is the right to associate with a group in order for the purpose of advocacy, and the right to privacy in so doing; it was recognized by Supreme Court in NAACP v. Alabama in 1958.

The government moved to dis-miss the case in July, saying it was fully within its rights to search House’s laptop as a border search. It also asked that, in the alternative, the court should rule for the govern-ment in “summary judgment.” In summary judgment, a court decides a case when there is no genuine dis-pute of fact, instead of moving to a full trial.

Both sides filed briefs on the is-sue, and then the question of dis-missal was argued before the court in December. Video of the argu-ment was recorded as part of a pi-lot project, Cameras In Courts. It is available at http://www.uscourts.gov/multimedia/cameras/player.aspx?video_uuid=ju19cvy8.

Last week on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Judge Casper ruled that House’s suit could go forward on all three claims.

What’s next?The federal government has until

April 16 to file its answer to House’s original complaint from May, now that the case was not dismissed. In that answer, according to Crump, it could choose to file statements of fact and again move for summary judgement, or it could consent to discovery, which would take place over the coming months. In discov-ery, both sides can request addition-al information from each other in order to establish the factual record.

The argumentThe government alleges it has the

right to search a travelers’ property at the border, for as long as it wish-es, as comprehensively as it wishes, without any suspicion whatsoever.

However, there is considerable argument to the contrary.

There are several standards of suspicion that can apply to searches, including none whatsoever, “rea-sonable suspicion,” and “probable cause.” In reasonable suspicion, the government needs to have “spe-cific and articulable facts” and in-ferences from them that a crime

has been committed. In probable cause, the government has to be-lieve that a crime has probably been committed.

House has argued that the gov-ernment should need reasonable suspicion to hold House’s laptop for 49 days. The judge agreed this idea is plausible, so this argument remains in play.

But House also suggested that the government should need rea-sonable suspicion to have searched his laptop at all, because of the ex-pressive and personal nature of the content. Judge Casper disagreed, saying that the search was more like a search of a suitcase (requiring no suspicion at the border) than of a body cavity or another “highly intru-sive search of a person” (requiring reasonable suspicion).

Crump, of the ACLU, said House would not be able to renew the ar-gument for a reasonable suspicion requirement in laptop searches until the case reached the court of appeals.

Another case that relates to lap-top searches is United States v. Cot-terman, where Howard Cotterman’s laptop was searched when he re-turned from Mexico. Cotterman is a registered sex offender in the Cali-fornia, and CBP agents referred him for “secondary inspection” based on

that fact. His computer was trans-ported 170 miles away and returned to him two days later; child por-nography was found in unallocated space on the disk.

The Arizona district court found in favor of Cotterman, and the evi-dence was suppressed. But a 3-judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, rul-ing for the government. However, the court was critical of the length of the search (2 days for Cotterman, versus 49 days for House).

On March 19, 2012, the Ninth Circuit agreed to re-hear the Cot-terman case en banc, or before the entire court. If the en banc court reverses Cotterman, it would be fa-vorable to House — at least if it were to happen before House’s case is decided.

Life after the searchNow, when David House travels

internationally, he is on a watchlist. His laptop has never been searched again, but when he goes through customs, he is searched “extremely thoroughly,” he says. It adds 10–35 minutes to his return home, he said.

“Realistically I don’t think I am still a target,” House said. But then he goes on: “It’s scary time to be a freedom-loving computer person.”

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slides and meeting agenda on their web site, http://cambridgema.gov/cdd/cp/zng/k2c2/. The committee’s 20-person membership includes two representatives from MIT, four local real estate developers, and eight local residents (including MIT faculty, staff, and one graduate student).

Dixon said that those who plan to attend could prepare for the meeting by looking at past presen-tations “to get a sense of where this thing is coming from,” but that this presentation would be much more of an “integrated overview that ties together” the pieces.

MIT community attendance has been sparse to nonexistent at the meetings, which are generally held at 8:00 a.m. at One Broadway; the next committee meeting is this morning. Beyond a few members of the Committee who work for MIT,

or MIT employees who attend in their official capacity, public at-tendance at meetings has primarily been local residents — the meet-ing after Google first proposed the reduction of the Three Cambridge Center rooftop garden was espe-cially crowded.

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mond lily brooch sparkled on her left collar, perhaps indicating the hope she wished to inspire in the crowd.

A translator stood nearby and interpreted every few paragraphs, for non-Persian speakers in the crowd.

“[In the United States], law does protect women, but rela-tively, America has not been the opportunity for all women,” she said. “But when we go to the East, especially Islamic countries, laws oppress women as well.”

Among the most discrimina-tory laws, Ebadi described, were those that legally assigned the value of a woman’s life to half of a man’s in court, denied women cer-tain rights to education, allowed polygamy while heavily restrict-ing the female right to request a divorce, required women to have husband’s permission for travel, and required women judges to resign their service after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Ebadi herself was forced to resign as a judge.

“These laws are not compat-ible with higher cultures of Iranian women, and that’s why Iranian women oppose them,” she said.

After an in-depth discussion of these numerous women-oppres-sive laws in Iran, Ebadi addressed other topics, including clean nu-clear production in Iran, separa-tion of religion and government, portrayal of Iran by international media, and the benefits of nonvio-lent resistance.

After the completion of the talk, Ebadi received a standing ovation, and then answered questions from the crowd. The speech was video-taped, and will be available online in the following weeks.

Condemning discriminatory laws against women in Iran

Ebadi began her discussion of women’s rights in Iran with per-haps the most fundamental right of all: recognition of full human identity and life.

“Pertaining to law, the life of a woman is worth half that of a man. In courts, the testimony of two women equals that of one man,” she said.

Pointing out the inequality ex-perience in marital relations, Eba-di also noted that “a man can mar-ry four wives and divorce a woman at any time without excuse. But di-vorce is very difficult, sometimes impossible, for women.”

She also pointed out that a married woman in Iran needs the permission of her husband in or-der to travel, which is especially problematic for women occupying government and administration positions.

“In Iran, the Secretary of Health is a woman. Now just imagine this woman, who is the Secretary of Health, serving 75 million people, has to beg her husband,” she said. “One would wonder what would happen if there was ever a fight between the man and the woman.”

Ebadi also spoke of the gains that Iran has made towards wom-en’s rights, both historically and

recently.Historically, the women of Iran

have made certain steps towards equality. “The women in Iran gained the right to vote in 1963. That is even prior to the women in Switzerland,” she said. “At the present time, over 65 percent of university students in Iran are fe-male, and many university profes-sors are women. We have numer-ous women as doctors, physicians, attorneys, engineers, and even those who occupy higher govern-ment positions.”

She also pointed to more recent gains towards equality, noting the revision of custody laws favoring Iranian mothers in 2004, and the current One Million Signatures petition opposing discriminatory laws in Iran.

“The society of Iran and the women of Iran oppose these laws, and that’s why the feminist move-ment is strong in Iran, “ she said. “These small successes are not enough. They are not going to stop until they achieve their purpose.”

But Ebadi noted that the Ira-nian government actively opposes these measures. “The government of Iran is very unhappy with wom-en of Iran who fight and treat them badly. They accuse women of tak-ing measures against matters of national security.”

“Some of the women who have been in prison for equal rights are young students in prison, very young girls. Since we are a univer-sity here, I would like to point out that 50 university students are in prison for demanding democracy, and over 1000 university students have been expelled because of po-litical or religious views,” she said.

Ebadi also reminded the audi-ence that oppression of women is a common problem shared with the world, even within the United States.

“For example, the United States is the land of the opportunity, but frankly speaking, there have been less opportunities for women than men,” she said. “The number of women in administration in the United States is less than the men. The more important political and economic positions are taken by men.”

Opposing nuclearAlthough the primary focus of

her speech was the rights of women in Iran, Ebadi also spoke briefly on other topics, including clean nucle-ar production in Iran.

In light of other countries like Germany shutting down their nu-clear plants, Ebadi urges Iran to seek environmental friendly alter-natives for clean energy sources, such as solar energy.

“Iran has a lot of sun, and we could have used solar energy. However, we have not invested even a cent in this regard,” she said.

She also stressed larger health-risk concerns, saying “Iran is locat-ed on earthquake faults, and [an accident] in a nuclear plant may result in a disaster like Hiroshima.”

Embracing nonviolent resistance

In her speech, Ebadi endorsed the use of nonviolent resistance of the people as the best method of reform, after decades of war.

“People are tired of violence. This is why the resistance of peo-ple in Iran is nonviolent,” she said. “Nonviolent resistance takes time in order to reach results, but it has a better result.”

As to how people can best con-tribute to the cause, Ebadi stated, “There is no unique method I can talk about. People should do what-ever they can based on their abili-

ties. If their abilities are technical, they can transfer knowledge. … If they are artists, they can transfer film and paper.”

Even people abroad can help end acts of oppression, she said. After her speech, Ebadi was asked what students at MIT could do to help end instances of global op-pression. She responded saying:

“You have to object to these laws. The world is a small village, and whatever happens anywhere, pertains everywhere. Your silence results in the situation in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the help you can provide is to write and disagree with these laws.”

Voices of MIT and Iranian Students

Ebadi was invited to speak at MIT by physics Professor and De-partment Head Ed Bertschinger, who studies theoretical astrophys-ics, gravitation, and cosmology.

“The invitation to Dr. Ebadi came when one of her relatives, who is a friend of mine, informed me about her visit to Boston for family reasons. I knew this would be a great opportunity for MIT and the greater Boston community to hear about Dr. Ebadi’s pioneering work on women’s rights in Iran,” Bertschinger said.

“It was an honor to meet her and hear her perspectives on the role of democracy and nonvio-lence as keys to human rights and justice for women in Iran and around the world,” he said.

Among the crowd of students, faculty, and visitors present at Ebadi’s talk were also many stu-dents involved in the MIT Persian Student Association (PSA), which

has co-hosted over 15 social and cultural events since May 2011. Iranian native, PSA president, and fourth-year electrical engineering PhD student Hossein Fariborzi G briefly spoke about his opinions of the April 4 speech and the current state of Iran with The Tech.

“I think the nuclear mission of Iran and the fact that we don’t even need the clean nuclear energy … she was right.” he said. “Regard-ing women’s rights, she’s right. Women and female attorneys have many obstacles in their way. The women are not allowed to judge in courts. Women in family and in the society have many problems which originate from patriarchal culture and biased law.”

Also regarding the situation of women’s rights in Iran, Fariborzi noted the oppression his own sis-ter has faced as an Iranian student. “My sister is a very good student. She just finished her bachelor’s in industrial design in Iran and was one of the top students in her class,” he said.

“All of a sudden, the university decided they would not accept any girls into their master’s programs. This is the case for many girls who want to pursue their studies in in-dustrial design, and a handful of other majors, at top universities in

Iran.” Fariborzi said. “In her class, out of 42, 29 of them were girls. They had a small demonstration inside the university, but the Ha-rasat [university ideological po-lice] dispersed them.”

“[Ebadi] is also right about revolution,” Fariborzi continued. “Reform is better than revolution, and both are better than a war. If you put it into a mathematical formula, revolution is better than war. War is worst.”

“The pressure is on the people, maybe hoping to cause revolution from the inside. But that just weak-ens and weakens the people. And weak people cannot do reform,” explained Fariborzi.

As a student of MIT and an Iranian native, Fariborzi hopes to put his MIT education to good use. “Now that I have this educa-tion, first of all, I can have a higher impact on the people who know me. [People of Iran] will know that I have graduated from one of the best schools in America, and I am active in both countries,” he said. “I hope through me, they will not believe the propaganda of the Ira-nian government. On the reverse side, I hope that my American friends will come to realize that Iran is not what you see on Fox News.”

“My field is technical, but I would definitely like to contrib-ute to my country, because I have most of what I have from my coun-try. I have lived there 22 years, but with the current situation, I can’t imagine that happening any time soon. I hope I can have some im-pact on industry and education in Iran.”

Regarding how other students could help the greater commu-nity, “I think MIT students need to have a broader focus, not just fo-cusing in studies,” Fariborzi said. “They need to be more enthusias-tic about world issues. They need to also be educated in these areas, so they can spread their knowl-edge and feel necessary to distrib-ute that knowledge to people they know.”

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that we couldn’t do in the building if residents were still there.” For ex-ample, kitchen areas in East Cam-pus that have particles of asbestos and old tiling from the original building will see new tiling and equipment.

“We’ve been working with EC’s house government to discuss re-pairs,” said Collins. “There will be some furniture reupholstering, fixing radiators that don’t shut off, and repainting white walls that do not have murals.” Additionally, all room floor tiles in Bemis of the east parallel, which is the older part of East Campus, will be replaced — the rest of the rooms in the east parallel were taken care of when specific sections of East Campus were closed in the past.

The remaining dorms — Baker House, Maseeh Hall, New House, Burton-Conner, and Simmons Hall — will house programs and conferences, such as the Research Science Institute (RSI), Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES), Interphase, and student researchers from other universities working at MIT.

“We’re trying to put buildings on a three- to four-year cycle,” said Collins. “If we close some dorms in rotation each summer, we can clean, renovate, and just give the building a rest.”

Summer housing ratesThis marks the third summer

since MIT decided to consolidate summer housing into fewer dorms to lower costs; previously, all dor-mitories were open to undergradu-ates during the summer.

In 2011, MacGregor and East Campus were the only two build-ings open for undergraduate sum-mer housing, and only singles were available at the rates of $2,096 in East Campus and $2,347 in Mac-Gregor. Collins, Humphreys, and the Housing Strategy Group de-cided to keep the rates level for undergraduates this summer, and given the dorm selection, doubles will also be available. Random and Bexley will have singles available for $2,095 and doubles for $1,851,

and living in MacGregor and Se-nior House singles will cost $2,347, with Senior House doubles costing $2,073.

“What we realized when we were looking at the pricing was that students and conference groups were paying disproportion-ate fees during the summertime,” said Humphreys. “So although we usually raise the rates every year to match the housing rates for the coming fall, we decided to hold the student rates constant and raise the conference rates this year to fix the balance.” In the future, the rates should be expected to keep pace with the term housing rates each year.

Within this year’s rates, the pricing differentiation is due to the classification of dorms into three tiers based on a variety of factors. Tier 1 represents dorms with higher costs of operations and newer facilities, MacGregor and Senior House are considered Tier 2 dorms, while Random and Bexley are Tier 3.

Summer desk workersIn light of a dorm security report

released in February by the Securi-ty Committee charged by Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo, Hum-phreys and Collins will be working over the summer to develop ini-tial security plans specific to each dorm, so the desk worker system for this summer will work the same as the previous summer.

“The house managers of the open dorms will work with desk captains to find students to fill the shifts first,” said Collins. “Even in closed buildings, desk will be open for one eight-hour shift a day for things like receiving mail, so if we’re able to find students first for those shifts, that would be our first option.”

The summer student housing application is now online at http://housing.mit.edu/summer_guest/summer_housing_application. Stu-dents who receive summer hous-ing will be able to move into their assignments starting May 30, with the exception of those moving into rooms occupied by graduating se-niors, who will move on June 11.

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By Gordon Globersports staff

There is much more to junior Brendan T. Deveney than meets the eye. On the surface, he is merely a swimming phe-nomenon. Just a few weeks ago he helped lead the MIT Men’s Swimming Team to a fourth-place finish at the National Cham-pionships, placing 5th in the 200-yard individual medley. In an exclusive inter-view with the tech, Deveny revealed that his talents in the pool are only the tip of the iceberg, and that he is an incredibly well-rounded individual.

The tech: What are you studying?Brendan t. Deveney: Chemistry, and

hopefully adding physics.tt: How do you balance school and

sports and social life?BtD: Having multiple interests and

being able to focus on different pur-suits at different times and interact with a wide range of people in the process is something I find rewarding and person-ally beneficial, and I think it’s exactly in maintaining my interests that I’m able to achieve balance in my life.

tt: What do you like about swimming?BtD: I really enjoy racing and com-

peting, and working hard in practice, in general, tends to be a pretty rewarding experience. The primary reason that I swim, though, is the team. There’s noth-

ing like it and I sometimes wish I was a freshman again just to be a part of the team and with the swimmers on it that much longer.

tt: Have you every played any other sports?

BtD: I played water polo and rowed in high school, and I played water polo with MIT this past year.

tt: What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

BtD: There are a lot of things I like to do in my free time, but in particular I like catching up with my brother, who’s a freshman at Amherst, and my sister, who’s still in high school.

tt: What kind of music do you listen to?

BtD: I really enjoy electronic dance music and a couple friends and I recently created a student group on campus, Elec-tronic Dance Music Society, catered to that interest.

tt: What do you want to do after MIT?BtD: I’m unsure, though I’m work-

ing on a startup as part of the Swager Lab (where I’m UROPing) that I may be able to pursue after MIT.

tt: What do you do with the EDM Society?

BtD: We just started up, but we’re hoping to do a couple things with the EDM Society. Our main focus is to host a series of EDM charity benefit concerts

and the best electronic dance parties on campus. We’re working now toward host-ing our first event during CPW. Aside from the philanthropic mission, we plan to organize trips to EDM events, festivals, and clubs in the area while generally of-fering opportunities for aficianados and enthusiasts to share in what they love.

Ultimately, we hope to be able to bring some world-class DJs onto campus, but in the meanwhile, we’re working on a number of cool ideas, so stay tuned.

tt: If you could be any kind of animal what would you be?

BtD: Emperor tamarin, for the moustache.

Athlete of the Week: BrendAn t. deveney, ‘13

Swimming, startups, and electronic musicDeveney finds focusing on many interests allows him to maintain a balanced life

Lauren Lo

Brendan t. Deveny is a varsity swimmer majoring in chemistry who enjoys elec-tronic music and spending time with his family.

By Mindy BrauerDaper staff

In a back-and-forth affair, MIT Men’s Lacrosse came out on top with a 9-8 dou-ble overtime victory over UMass Boston on Tuesday afternoon. Freshman James C. Slonaker netted the game-winner 57 sec-onds into the second extra session to com-plete the hat-trick for the Engineers.

Junior Gabriel V. Blanchet put MIT on the board after 1:11 elapsed but the Bea-cons scored twice in a three-minute span to claim the lead at the 9:55 mark. The game became a defensive battle until Ben-jamin D. Hessels ’14 found the back of the net with 5:12 left in the second quarter. After winning the ensuing face-off, Joel T. Santisteban ’14 made an uncontested bid at the net to put the Engineers in front, 3-2. Michael A. Gibson ’13 quickly followed with a solo effort of his own.

UMass Boston ended its scoring drought with a man-up marker at 3:23; however, William M. Kelleher ’15 con-nected on a feed from goalie Christopher B. Rullan ’13 less than a minute later. The hosts then registered back-to-back goals to close out the half and even the score at five.

Both teams traded goals throughout the third quarter, resulting in a deadlock at seven heading into the fourth frame. Slonaker was responsible for both tallies as Kelleher earned the assist on the first while

Gibson found him for a man-down score.In the fourth quarter, Hessels set up

Sean E. Burke ’13 for the go-ahead goal with 11:27 on the clock but the Beacons registered the equalizer six minutes later. Neither side was able to generate a shot on down the stretch, sending the game into overtime.

UMass Boston made two charges at the net in the first overtime; however, both ef-forts were off the mark. The Engineers’ best attempt was a strike by Rullan which was turned away by the Beacons’ goalie. In the second overtime, UMass Boston won the face-off and immediately put a shot on goal that was stopped by Rullan. Gibson brought the ball up the field and dished it off to a wide-open Slonaker who beat the Beacons’ goalie to the high near post for the win.

In addition to his three-point perfor-mance, Gibson went 7-of-14 in faceoffs. Senior Bryan M. Beller compiled five caused turnovers and three groundballs while freshman Quantum J. Wei tallied five groundballs and two caused turnovers. Burke added three groundballs and one caused turnover as Ernie Park ’12 and Tim-othy K. Wilczynski ’14 both chipped in two caused turnovers. In net, Rullan finished with six saves.

MIT (3-4) opens up Pilgrim Lacrosse League play with a home game against Springfield College on Saturday, April 7.

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Jonathan E. rea ’14 rounds third base in Wednesday’s game against Brandeis University. The Engineers managed to break a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the fifth to eventually win the game 9-2.

Men’s lacrosse wins by one in double overtime

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